My husband took this picture at the pumpkin patch the other day – I just love it. Everyone is looking at the camera, we’re all smiling – these are the moments we like to remember; the ones we love to share with everyone. The ones we frame and hang on our walls. Here’s the one […]
Okay, we don’t normally do narrations at bedtime. We usually reserve evenings for free reads and stories that may help them fall asleep, not something that they have to be so attentive to as to narrate afterwards. But we were getting behind in our Robin Hood reading last spring, and the day before I was
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We read the first few lines of Caddie’s Recitation tonight at bedtime… A traveller through a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea;And one took root and sprouted up, and grew into a tree. I had to learn the rest, so I looked it up and found this poem that I just loved: Small Beginningsby
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I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately, it’s true. No inspiration to blog, no charge to my camera battery, no desire to draw in my nature journal, dishes in the sink, a list of errands left undone, kids prodding me to make dinner, a strange growth taking over the crawdad tank… It happens
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Today is the last day to file a Private School Affidavit in California. You can find detailed information on how to file the Private School Affidavit here: http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/ca/affidavit/AffidavitInstructions.asp California’s compulsory attendance laws only require that children be enrolled by their 6th birthday in the year in which they turn 6 on or before December 2
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A few years back when I first met Kristine, she sent me a copy of this booklist (see below), which also happens to be posted in the file section of the Ambleside_Year0 Yahoo Group – a wonderful place for those of you who may have little ones who want to learn more about CM. It
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After the torrents of rain we had here in California earlier this week (really, torrents!) we weren’t expecting such a warm and beautiful day for our -0’7″ low tide outing today. Jen gave a quick dry brush lesson drawing shells… There was sand and water play – endless possibilities… and plenty of tidepools for exploration
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Here’s our boy today… He got a good thumping and a face plant in a wave he thought he was big enough for. It was interesting listening to the men around him talking to him about it. It was universal – they didn’t frown disappointingly at him, tell him he should have been more careful,
This past week we had a long drive home from the Tar Pits in LA so I decided to listen to an audio I’d downloaded to my ipod called “Making the Heart Sing With Recitation” by Bonnie Buckingham. She had a lot of good things to say on there. My 8yo daughter was the only
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Monergism is offering a free download of J.C. Ryle’s “The Duties of Parents” for EPUB, Kindle, or in PDF format. Reading through, it was interesting to find much emphasis on early habits, and other hints of ideas near and dear to CM’s heart. Living in the same country at the same time, I wonder if
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